In a rural, partly Amish community in Indiana, the schools are rapidly adopting educational technology from tech giants like Google. Students may be leaving farms in the morning to come to classrooms with Chromebooks at every desk. As technology becomes more and more integrated into modern education, these schools have to draw on scarce resources to protect the privacy of their students.

Now that schools are back in full swing, we thought it would be a good time to check in on what’s happened in the student privacy world since we submitted our FTC complaint about Google’s practices a little under a year ago.

The main complaint in our FTC filing was that, based on all the publicly available information we could find, it appeared that Google was tracking students and building advertising profiles on them when they navigated to Google-operated sites outside of Google Apps for Education (GAFE).